út 8. 9. 2020 v 12:34 odesílatel Konstantin Knizhnik <
k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru> napsal:
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> On 08.09.2020 12:34, Pavel Stehule wrote:
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> út 8. 9. 2020 v 11:06 odesílatel Konstantin Knizhnik <
> k.knizh...@postgrespro.ru> napsal:
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>> I have performed comparison of different ways of implementing UPSERT in
>> Postgres.
>> May be it will be interesting not only for me, so I share my results:
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>> So first of all initialization step:
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>> create table jsonb_schemas(id serial, schema bytea primary key);
>> create unique index on jsonb_schemas(id);
>> insert into jsonb_schemas (schema) values ('some') on conflict(schema)
>> do nothing returning id;
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>> Then I test performance of getting ID of exitsed schema:
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>> 1. Use plpgsql script to avoid unneeded database modifications:
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>> create function upsert(obj_schema bytea) returns integer as $$
>> declare
>> obj_id integer;
>> begin
>> select id from jsonb_schemas where schema=obj_schema into obj_id;
>> if obj_id is null then
>> insert into jsonb_schemas (schema) values (obj_schema) on
>> conflict(schema) do nothing returning id into obj_id;
>> if obj_id is null then
>> select id from jsonb_schemas where schema=obj_schema into obj_id;
>> end if;
>> end if;
>> return obj_id;
>> end;
>> $$ language plpgsql;
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> In parallel execution the plpgsql variant can fail. The possible raise
> conditions are not handled.
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> So maybe this is the reason why this is really fast.
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> With this example I model real use case, where we need to map long key
> (json schema in this case) to short identifier (serial column in this
> case).
> Rows of jsonb_schemas are never updated: it is append-only dictionary.
> In this assumption no race condition can happen with this PLpgSQL
> implementation (and other implementations of UPSERT as well).
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I am not sure, but I think this should be a design and behavior of MERGE
statement - it is designed for OLAP (and speed). Unfortunately, this
feature stalled (and your benchmarks show so there is clean performance
benefit).
Regards
Pavel
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